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• The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 579...
• This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 293...
• Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 412...
• For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 265...
• Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 707...
• Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 342...
• Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 240...
• Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 40...
• Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 353...